Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.