Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.
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.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!