Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.