"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."

"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."

"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."

"At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."

"What's done cannot be undone."

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

"People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour."

"Think you can, think you can't, you are Right!!!"

"That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile."