You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.