Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

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.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.