Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

The vision always precedes the realization

Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.