Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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.