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

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.

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

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

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

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption