One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Without stones there is no arch.

I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.