Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

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

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.