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

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

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

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

The vain being is the really solitary being.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.