If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.