The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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.
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love