Winter softens into spring, spring blushes into summer, and summer rip — Francesca Carrara

"... love cares not for distinctions ; but friendship cannot exist without equality."

"Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labour, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight."

"Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius developes itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others !"

"[Guido] I do believe there is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved."

"... — for nothing is more mournful than mans work and mans skill going to ruin for want of mans care — ..."

"THE history of a minute — why, it would give a birds-eye view of every possible variety in human existence. Wonderful the many events that are happening together — life and death — joy and sorrow— the great and the mean — the common and the rare — good and evil — are all in the record of that brief segment of time."