It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.
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.