Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

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

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.