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

Most prisons have wide gates!

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.

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.

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.