Age merely shows what children we remain.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.