When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

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

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

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

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.