The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.