it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

The vision always precedes the realization

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

Love is the reality of the soul.

True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

There is nothing you can’t do, if you set your mind to it. Anything is possible.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!