It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.