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

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

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?

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

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

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