If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

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.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?