The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

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.