One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers.
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
No good plan survives contact with the enemy.
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
The web eliminates all hiding places.
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility.
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.