Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is