Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.