It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.