Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.