Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

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

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

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

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.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.