Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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

Women are the true modelers of social order.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.