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

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

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

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

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.

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

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