The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.