We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of humans.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love.