Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

The loss of friends is a tax on age!

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.