So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

The aim of living is life itself.

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.