"All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches, & even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt."

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

"Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

"Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?"

"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."

"If you have love you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it it doesn't matter much what else you do have."

"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."

"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile."

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives."