Any one can paint these pictures on the wall, and to complain of its bareness is to acknowledge the poverty of one's own imagination wishing for something,--never mind what.

The higher, the more unattainable, the better.

Only desire earnestly, and you will feel yourself alive again.
Your misfortune, my friend, is that you have not to work for your daily bread.

A settled income is only a blessing to those to whom the attainment of the trifling and external pleasures of life seems worth the trouble of an effort.

You are wise enough to set no value on what the world can give you.