In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud

What is life for? Life is for love.

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

Why not live for the reaches of Heaven than strive for the depths of Hell? If in the end there is nothing- what have you lost but fear and anger and hate?

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

I do not know how long the arm of Mr Holbrooke or Mrs Albright is ... or whether that arm can reach me here.