... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

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.

The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

There are rules but there's really no wrong way.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.