Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

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.

We'll have all night for slow and sweet, " she said softly. "But right now, I really want that hard and fast you mentioned earlier.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.