No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Biography is the only true history.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

There are remedies for all things but death.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.