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

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

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

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.

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