Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de LamartineSilence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
Alphonse de LamartineThe greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.
Alphonse de Lamartine