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

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

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

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.

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

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.