Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

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.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!