"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

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

"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"

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

"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."

"Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers come to dust."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."