The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.