A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

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.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.