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.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.