I'm too old to know everything

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.