History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.