"Only a fool," he told himself, "gets angry with others: a stone falls because it is heavy. Will I always behave like a child? When will I ever acquire the good habit of giving those people only as much of my heart as they pay for? If I want to be esteemed by them as well as by myself, I will have to show them that though my poverty may do business with their wealth, my heart is a thousand leagues removed from their insolence, and set in too high a sphere to be reached by their petty marks of disdain or favor."