There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.