41 Quotes by Berthold Auerbach

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.