The difference breeds hatred.

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.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.