Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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.
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
Certain names always awake certain prejudices.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.