Who said “The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable…”?

“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”

“I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.”

“A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!”

“We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.”

“The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”

“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”

“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.”

“Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”