All Quotes

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising. ”

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. ”

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling. ”

How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude! ”

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road. ”

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little. ”

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain. ”

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. ”

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? ”

I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education. ”