Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.