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

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

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

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.

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

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