in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.