The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord’s Prayer.

The mind’s pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

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.

Man’s most valuable faculty is his imagination.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, – a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

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.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one’s life.

If one hour’s work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.