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.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!