The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.