The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

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

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

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.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.