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

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

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

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

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

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

What we love to do we find time to do.