"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

"He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."

"Flowers are words even a baby can understand."

"To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead."

"Truth burns up error."

"I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it."

"Thank heavens the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent."