In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.