Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.