France has usually been governed by prostitutes

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.