Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.