To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
From Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
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