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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.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.