The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.