“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”

“Few people know how to be old”

“I can resist everything except temptation”

“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”

“It is better to lose your time than to lose your character”

“I love you not only for what you are, But for what I am when I'm with you. ”