Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

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.

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