Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

The past three years have been the most destructive in the Brazilian Amazon's history