Fair I was also, and that was my ruin. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once a man's thirty, he's already old,
He is indeed as good as dead.
It's best to kill him right away.

Wir sprechen überhaupt viel zu viel. Wir sollten weniger sprechen und mehr zeichnen. Ich meinerseits möchte mir das Reden ganz abgewöhnen und wie die bildende Natur in lauter Zeichnungen fortsprechen.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.