Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.