Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.