The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.