"A new untruth is better than an old truth."

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"There's more good music being made now than ever before."