the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

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.

Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

We came up with the name and logo pretty much the same way we do everything else.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.