What is the short meaning of the long speech?
Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.