We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but…

The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wa…

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.