To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

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.

God wants you to always have a hunger in your heart to learn something new.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

The minister's task is not to coddle the saints but to collar the sinners.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.