We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.