Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

Rome is an astonishment!

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.