I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

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.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

If you believe...you will!

The skin of her face, parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain, with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.