“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance”

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity”

“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible”

“All that glitters is not gold”