It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

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

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Speech happens to not be his language.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Love is the symbol of eternity.