I am sorry that you should put so much faith in the stability of things.

So you, too, have got the malady of speculation.

I suppose you are thinking of building a Palazzo Carnesecchi out at Sant' Agnese in eight floors and thirty-two apartments." "Yes, I am mad," answered the lawyer ironically.
"Who knows ?" returned the other.

"I tell you they are building a Pompeii in those new quarters.

When you and I are old men, crazy Englishmen will pay two francs to be allowed to wander about the ruins." "It may be.