The poet takes the best things out of his life and puts them into his work. Hence his work is beautiful and his life bad.

The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questions. This answer is: carry on with your everyday affairs, that is to say, put it out of your mind.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.