A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.