Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

The real truths are those that can be invented.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.