Yet it was the most important day of his life, and had it not been that he had left Hedwig with little hope of ever giving her another lesson, he would have been so happy that the whole air would have seemed dancing with sunbeams and angels and flowers.

I think that when a man loves he cares very little for what he does.
The greatest success is indifferent to him, and he cares not at all for failure in the ordinary undertakings of life.

These are my reflections, and they are worth something, because I once loved very much myself, and was parted from her I loved many times before the last parting.
It was on this day that Nino came to me and told me all the history of the past months, of which I knew nothing; but, as you know all about it, I need not tell you what the conversation was like, until he had finished.

Then I told him he was the prince and chief of donkeys, which was no more than the truth, as everybody will allow.

He only spread out his palms and shrugged his shoulders, putting his head on one side, as though to say he could not help it.
"Is it perhaps my fault that you are a little donkey ?" I asked; for you may imagine whether I was angry or not.
"Certainly not, Sor Cornelio," he said.