God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

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.