I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.