Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy