Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

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.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.