The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

No labor is hopeless.

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

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

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.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.