I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
He who follows another will never overtake him
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.