“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”

“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many. ”

“I can resist everything except temptation”

“May you live all the days of your life”

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things”

“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride”