Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

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.

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

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

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

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.