It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.