But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

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.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

There is no financial plateau that you cannot reach

Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf.

The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.