The world is the same everywhere.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

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

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

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