To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

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.

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption