London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.