Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.