There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

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.