he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

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

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.