Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
History teaches everything, even the future.
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
All our tastes are but reminiscences.