Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his o….

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life..

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cann….

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal yo….

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind..

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak..

The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a re….

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience..

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single i….

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young..

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.].

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight..

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing..

And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny..

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?.

I learn life from the poets..

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable..

Be happy, but be happy through piety..

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content..

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power..

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers..