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.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.