As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely..

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us..

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world..

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it..

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has place….

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment..

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave..

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs..

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth..

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions..

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur..

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius..

Music revives the recollections it would appease..

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die..

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers..

Speech happens to not be his language..

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which….

Men do not change; they unmask themselves..

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep..

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political i….