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January 8.
Politeness is a kind of blunting cover that wraps the rough edges of our character and keeps others from being hurt by them.
Yes, the style of Telemachus resembles Homer’s, but that of Mme Dacier’s Homer.
One must always have a little indulgence for the authors one reads, and lend oneself to their imaginings when some genius distinguishes them.
That shield of Achilles, bounded by an ocean, represented one of the world’s two halves very well.
The splendor of fire. For sound, the word clangor corresponds to splendor for light.
January 10.
In substances, whether liquid or solid, that undergo some dissolution, their flavor dissolves too, and in the parts that constitute this flavor the sense of taste finds I know not what detachment, I know not what separation. Through these separations and detachments there comes about what is called an aftertaste, produced by an after-flavor, that is, by a particular flavor, distinct from and later than the general flavor, which loses its homogeneity.
Note. Their color dissolves too, etc.
January 11.
Homer. He often goes outside his range.
January 12.
What a charnel house this Iliad is! What slaughter.
He often Shakespearizes.
Hilarem datorem diligit Deus. (St. Paul). When you give, give joyfully and with a smile.
Those chariot races around a turning post trained the Greeks in moderation. How?
In all those times when minds are not calm.
January 26.
Twenty-five thousand four hundred seventy-nine laws!...