As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.