Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

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