What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

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.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

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

It isn't possible to love and to part.

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.