Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

The little man is still a man.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!