falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

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.

One big blow can hit and destroy any strong door in front of you. As for the 1000 feeble blows, they can’t even remove the cobwebs. Courage is the key.

alcohol played the midwife

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.