I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

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.

My heart dances with joy when I think about you.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.

There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.