What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student centuries afterwards who treasures it.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Slight small injuries and they will become none at all.

Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting then being one.

Beauty is worse than wine it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation, it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

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