What a daily excitement such a view, taken at every step! life is worth ten times as much in a city so situated.

Perugia is full, overflowing, with the treasures of early art.

I saw them so rapidly it seems now as if in a trance, yet certainly with a profit, a manifold gain, such as Mahomet thought he gained from his five minutes' visits to other spheres.

Here are two portraits of Raphael as a youth: it is touching to see what effect this angel had upon all that surrounded him from the very first.
Florence! I was there a month, and in a sense saw Florence: that is to say, I took an inventory of what is to be seen there, and not without great intellectual profit.

There is too much that is really admirable in art,--the nature of its growth lies before you too clearly to be evaded.