Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Great souls are harmonious.

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

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.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

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