It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

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 don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.