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.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.