in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.