El simio más perfecto no puede dibujar un simio. Sólo el hombre puede hacerlo. Pero también sólo él lo considera una ventaja. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.