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

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

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

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?