The ultimate test of the laughing instinct is that a man should always be ready to laugh at himself

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.