What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.