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.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.