By seeking and blundering we learn.

One must be something to be able to do something.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

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

Power is neither male nor female.

Everything transitory is but an image.