There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
England. . . the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.
The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.
The world exists to let Man philosophize.
The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.
An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.
Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.
I got tired of playing other people's songs.
There is a difference between the facts of a person and the truth of him.
No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.