The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!