As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.