If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.