Fritz Robinson Quotes

“I had no idea,” he said, “that a few reeds would be so heavy.”

″‘Never mind, my boy,’ I said, ‘patience and courage!‘”

“Think a little,” I replied, “you are quite as capable as I am of finding out the way, even if you do not know the real reason of your failure.”

″‘My dear boy,‘” said I, ‘you need not have added that to your load.‘”

″‘There now!’ said I, laughing as he tasted this new luxury, ‘you will have to exercise moderation again, friend Fritz! I daresay it is delicious, but it will go to your head, if you venture deep into your flask.‘”

“I laughed so much at this ridiculous scene, that I could scarcely assist my terrified boy out of his awkward predicament.”

″‘Well,’ said I, ‘let the little orphan be yours. You bravely and kindly exerted yourself to save the mother’s life; now you must train her child carefully, for unless you do so its natural instinct will prove mischievous instead of useful to us.‘”

“What a jolly little fellow it is!”

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away.

Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind.

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries.

A good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you?

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.