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

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.