The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.