We are not always even what we are most.
There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.