The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Spirit doesn't retire.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.