Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.