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

The world is the same everywhere.

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.

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

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

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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