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

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

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

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

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.

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