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.

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

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

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