What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

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

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

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.