Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.