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

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.