It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.