By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.