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.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.