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.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Who understands much, forgives much.