The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

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

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

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

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

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