“The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.”

“To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.”

“Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”

“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.”

“I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.”

“Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.”

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”