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.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.