Vocation is the spine of life.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.