Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

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.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.