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.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

I have lived too long in foreign parts