Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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.

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

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.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.