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

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Justice is the truth in action.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

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.

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.

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.