Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Whoever purifies his soul shall be clean.

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.