Prince Massimo is quoted for his good sense, and the two Caetani for their puns.
Santa-Croce, though a little cracked, is no ordinary man.

But what a wretched education the Government gives them! When they are not the children, they are the pupils of priests, whose system principally consists in teaching them nothing.

Get hold of a student of St.
Sulpice, wash him tolerably clean, have him dressed by Alfred or Poole, and bejewelled by Castellani or Hunt and Roskel, let him learn to thrum a guitar, and sit upon a horse, and you'll have a Roman prince as good as the best of them.
You probably think it natural that people brought up at Rome, in the midst of the finest works of art in the world, should take a little interest in art, and know something about it.

Pray be undeceived.

This man has never entered the Vatican except to pay visits; that one knows nothing of his own gallery, but through the report of his house-steward.