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

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

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

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

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

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