The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
Life is too short to be little.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.