- Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
- Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
- Now I shall go to sleep. Good night. [These were his last words; he died within the day.]
- I am studying daily at an Armenian monastery, the Armenian language. I found that my mind wanted something craggy to break upon; and this-as the most difficult thing I could discover here (in Venice) for an amusement- I have chosen, to torture me into attention. It is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. I try, and shall go on;-but I answer for nothing, least of all for my intentions or my success.
- Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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