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!

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.