After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.
Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.