Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.