“It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing”

“The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction”

“No, happily that unjust prejudice is forgotten which made the son responsible for the father's actions. Review your life, Albert ...”

“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”

“these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe.”