Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveIn most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveSince it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve