A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.