Do you know what it is?
'Do unto others, as ye would that others should do unto you.' I have not been cruel, and never drew the sword out of pleasure in slaying; but now I grieve for having brought woe to so many! "What things were done in Haarlem! If you had moved there instead of to Antwerp, and you and Ruth...

I dare not think of it! Memories of those days torture me in many a sleepless hour, and there is much that fills me with bitter remorse.

But I am permitted to live, and it seems as if I were new-born, and henceforth existence and doing good must be synonymous to me.

You were right to be angry...." "That is all forgiven and forgotten," interrupted the smith in a resonant voice, pressing his son's fingers with his hard right hand.
These words affected the convalescent like a strengthening potion, and when the hammers again moved in the smithy, Ulrich was no longer satisfied with his idle life, and began with Ruth to look forward to and discuss the future.
"The words: 'fortune,' 'fame,' 'power,'" he said once, "have deceived me; but art! You don't know, Ruth, what art is! It does not bestow everything, but a great deal, a great deal.

Meister Moor was indeed a teacher! I am too old to begin at the beginning once more.