Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.