Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
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.