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.

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.

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

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.