I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.

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.

A divided mind cannot conquer a united soul.

Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

I've always been who I've been. I've always been this person.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.