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

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

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

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.