The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.