The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.