Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.