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

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

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

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

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

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

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