All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Speech happens to not be his language.