Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.