There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

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.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.