It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.