"True influence consists in surpassing one's model not in reproducing it."

"Between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision'"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"The energies of the soul slumber in the vague reveries of hope."

"Very few people know what love is, and very few of those that do, tell of it."

"If vengeance ever seemed to have any show of justice, it is then when piety and affection constraineth us to remember…"

"[T]he diversities of opinions among that multitude of people being many, yet every man ignorant what would be the iss…"

"Who was ever sorrowful to behold the murderer of innocents brought to his end, or what man weepeth to see a just mass…"

"I beseech you that shall read this history not to resemble the spider, that feedeth of the corruption that she findit…"

"[T]he desire of bearing sovereign rule and authority respecteth neither blood nor amity, nor caring for virtue, as be…"