Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

How easy love makes fools of us.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.