“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

True friends stab you in the front.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.