"The greatest minds are those who can be both serious and frivolous."

"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

"If people are to live, why die? And are our carcasses worth raising? I hope, if mine is, I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind …"

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."

"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."