To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.