Famous quotes containing the words journal and/or letters:
“How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughtsI always write it according to the humour I am in, and if a stranger was to think it worth reading, how capriciousinsolent & whimsical I must appear!one moment flighty and half mad,the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written her fair neck round about:
Noli me tangere for Caesars I am,
And wild for to hold though I seem tame.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)