If you haven't had your life what have you had?

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.