The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

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

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.