The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears