Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

The happy ending is our national belief.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.