People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

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

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

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

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.

The world is the same everywhere.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.