The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.