One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.