The heart has no wrinkles.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.