Worthlessness

Anything forced is not beautiful

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself

Without music, life would be a mistake

A room without books is like a life without meaning

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice

Ability is nothing without opportunity

All that glitters is not gold

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing

It's the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.