If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.