Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.