Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

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.

You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

And that, said John, is that.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.

My parents created their own war.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.