Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

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!

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources