The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.