How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

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