Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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

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

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.

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

Years teach us more than books.

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.