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

To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.

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

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

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.

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

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