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

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

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

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

What we love to do we find time to do.

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

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.