Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

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

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

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