Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

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

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

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

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.