A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.