The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

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

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.