If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Life is like a coin, you can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once.
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.
I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.
