Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

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

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

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.