Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
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.
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.