“A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there is no present tense, no circulatory system, nor dreams to balance the waking hours. No Rome.”
“The lioness in Rome is quiet. I will not wake her to seek more money.”
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”
“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
“When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.”