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.

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

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.