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

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

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

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

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

What we love to do we find time to do.

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