The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
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.