The youth is better than the old age of friendship.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.