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.
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
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?