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

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.

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?

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

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

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

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