A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

People who say you can't do something should be ignored. They're probably talking to themselves.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.

Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.

No matter what you've been told, your worth more than gold.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Quite like old times,' the room says.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.