In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.