Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.