In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Years teach us more than books.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.