Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Experience teaches only the teachable.