Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.