If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.