Only the soul that loves is happy

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.