I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.