It is the house of my dreams. My Tuscan dream! [Every Italophile's dream]

The glorious gift of a new year is sacred blessing.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!

He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.

Business neglected is business lost.

winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.

There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.