The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.