Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.