If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

Speech happens to not be his language.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.