I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.