A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.
Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.