Years teach us more than books.
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.