Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.
I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.