One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

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.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.