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

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

Humankind above all is lazy.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.