"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall"

"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning"

"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome"

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance"

"Every one soon or late comes round by Rome"

"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting"

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive"

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"

"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves"