“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Never cut what you can untie.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Children need models rather than critics.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Space is the stature of God.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.

If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough.

I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations.

Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.

When I get older, I don’t think I’ll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.