The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.