Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.