Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.