All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art.