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

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

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

Years teach us more than books.

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.