Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.