[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.