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

The world is the same everywhere..

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

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent..

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.….

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone..

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself..

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

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives..

The vain being is the really solitary being..

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others..

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

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?.

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

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

Imagination is the mightiest despot..