Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

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.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.