Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

- Berthold Auerbach

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

- Berthold Auerbach

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

- Berthold Auerbach

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

- Berthold Auerbach

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Berthold Auerbach

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

- Berthold Auerbach

Years teach us more than books.

- Berthold Auerbach

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

- Berthold Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

- Berthold Auerbach