I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.