Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
Far less envy in America than in France.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.