Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.