Book xviii

. Truth and Beauty._

FOOTNOTES:

[803-3] See Byron, page 549.

[803-4] See Chaucer, page 6.

MADAME ROLAND. 1754-1793.

O Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name![804-1]

FOOTNOTES:

[804-1] MACAULAY: _Essay on Mirabeau._

BERTRAND BARÈRE. 1755-1841.

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

_Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792._

It is only the dead who do not return.

_Speech, 1794._

SCHILLER. 1759-1805.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

_The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6._

The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my own dominions never sets.[804-2]

_Don Carlos. Act i. Sc. 6._

FOOTNOTES:

[804-2] See Scott, page 495.

JOSEPH ROUGET DE L'ISLE. 1760- ----.

Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!

_The Marseilles Hymn._

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

_The Marseilles Hymn._

A. F. F. VON KOTZEBUE. 1761-1819.

There is another and a better world.[805-1]

_The Stranger. Act i. Sc. 1._

FOOTNOTES:

[805-1] Translated by N. Schink, London, 1799.

J. G. VON SALIS. 1762-1834.

Into the silent land! Ah, who shall lead us thither?

_The Silent Land._

Who in life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear hope's tender blossoms Into the silent land!

_The Silent Land._

JOSEPH FOUCHÉ. 1763-1820.

"It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"[805-2]--words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

_Memoirs of Fouché._

Death is an eternal sleep.

_Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794._

FOOTNOTES:

[805-2] Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,--it is a blunder," and attributed to Talleyrand.

J. M. USTERI. 1763-1827.

Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

_Life let us cherish._

H. B. CONSTANT. 1767-1830.

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.[806-1]

FOOTNOTES:

[806-1] This saying, "Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vécu avec elle," is assigned to Constant by A. Hayward in his Introduction to the "Autobiography and Letters" of Mrs. Piozzi.

JUNOT, DUC D'ABRANTES. 1771-1813.

I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.[806-2]

(When asked as to his ancestry.)

FOOTNOTES:

[806-2] See Plutarch, page 733.

Curtius Rufus seems to me to be descended from himself. (A saying of Tiberius).--TACITUS: _Annals,