The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.