Only this much I should like to add that life is really harder to bear than I had thought for.
"Farewell, dear and honored friend; remember me affectionately to Bhani, who, I trust, does not suffer too severely from this hard winter, and always believe in the faithful friendship and devotion of your "WILHELM EYNHARDT." Three days later Wilhelm received the following answer from Schrotter: "DEAREST FRIEND: Your long and welcome New Year's letter troubled me much on account of the state of mind I see revealed in it.

I think, however, that it is explained by the fact of your being rooted up out of your accustomed surroundings that you are oppressed by Haber's hospitality, and that you have as yet made no plans for the future, and I trust that your spirits will improve when these three circumstances are altered.
"I have always considered Haber, with all his good qualities of heart and character, a thoroughly commonplace man, and your observations verify my opinion to the full.

And yet I quite understand that the sight of his prosperity and self-satisfaction should give you food for thought, and raise the question in your mind whether his philosophy--if I may use the word--or yours, is the right one.

That is a great question, and I do not presume to answer it, either in general or for your particular case; and all the more, for the very good reason that your life is only really beginning now.

You are not yet thirty-four, you may yet do something great, something pre-eminent, and who knows if those very qualities which have made your life unproductive hitherto, may not enable you later on to do things beside which the achievements of a Paul Haber shrink into insignificance?
On the other hand, I am persuaded--quite apart from your respective ways of life--that you have chosen the better and higher part.
"Human nature is like a tower with many stories; some people inhabit the lower, others the higher ones.