Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

Speech happens to not be his language.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.