“Few people know how to be old”

“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”

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

“I can resist everything except temptation”

“Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless ”

“Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind. ”