All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.