Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.