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.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

Keep making the movements of life.