Let us offer our hearts, wretched and empty as they are, to God, that He may be pleased to fill them with that charity which amends the past, which ensures the future, which fears and trusts, weeps and rejoices in its knowledge; which becomes in every instance the virtue of which we stand in need.

Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion.

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years’ time.

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend’s bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him.

Para hacer el bien, hay que conocerlo; y al igual que cualquier otra cosa, no podemos conocerlo sino en medio de nuestras pasiones, mediante nuestros juicios, con nuestras ideas; las cuales muy a menudo dejan bastante que desear.

Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.

Ora sapete come è l’aspettativa: immaginosa, credula, sicura.

Povero Renzo! – rispose il frate, - se il potente che vuol commettere l’ingiustizia fosse sempre obbligato a dir le sue ragioni, le cose non aderebbero come vanno.