The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.