O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

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.

He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be.

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.

When you don't know where you're at, you don't get upset you're not somewhere else.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.