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 century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.