"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all the talking to himself."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

"I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."