During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.

A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.