Folly Loves The Martyrdom Of Fame.
Out Of Chaos God Made A World, And Out Of High Passions Comes A People.
Friendship Is Love Without His Wings!
We Are All Selfish And I No More Trust Myself Than Others With A Good Motive.
Truth Is Always Strange, Stranger Than Fiction.
There Is No Instinct Like That Of The Heart.
Now Hatred Is By Far The Longest Pleasure; Men Love In Haste But They Detest At Leisure.
Society Is Now One Polished Horde, Formed Of Two Mighty Tries, The Bores And Bored.
I Shall Soon Be Six-and-twenty. Is There Anything In The Future That Can Possibly Console Us For Not Being Always Twenty-five?
Cervantes Smiled Spain's Chivalry Away; A Single Laugh Demolished The Right Arm Of His Country.
The Best Prophet Of The Future Is The Past.
Women Hate Everything Which Strips Off The Tinsel Of Sentiment, And They Are Right, Or It Would Rob Them Of Their Weapons.
Smiles Form The Channels Of A Future Tear.
Though I Love My Country, I Do Not Love My Countrymen.
All Farewells Should Be Sudden, When Forever.
The Dew Of Compassion Is A Tear.
For Pleasures Past I Do Not Grieve, Nor Perils Gathering Near; My Greatest Grief Is That I Leave Nothing That Claims A Tear.
If I Could Always Read, I Should Never Feel The Want Of Company.
Men Think Highly Of Those Who Rise Rapidly In The World; Whereas Nothing Rises Quicker Than Dust, Straw, And Feathers.
I Would Rather Have A Nod From An American, Than A Snuff-box From An Emperor.
Prolonged Endurance Tames The Bold.
The Beginning Of Atonement Is The Sense Of Its Necessity.
I Have A Great Mind To Believe In Christianity For The Mere Pleasure Of Fancying I May Be Damned.
But What Is Hope? Nothing But The Paint On The Face Of Existence; The Least Touch Of Truth Rubs It Off, And Then We See What A Hollow-cheeked Harlot We Have Got Hold Of.
Wives In Their Husbands' Absences Grow Subtler, And Daughters Sometimes Run Off With The Butler.
There Is Something Pagan In Me That I Cannot Shake Off. In Short, I Deny Nothing, But Doubt Everything.
I Am About To Be Married, And Am Of Course In All The Misery Of A Man In Pursuit Of Happiness.