Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.