Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
My art and profession is to live.