I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

Some of you may not like what I had to say, but these are the things that I’ve noticed and believe should be said.

How devastating to find 'the one' and not be 'their one.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

Obviously people in Seattle love a little more sun but also nothing is built for it, i miss my rain.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

Signori has all the tricks up his book.