The Youth of Goethe is a book of Biography. This book says that In his seventy-fifth year Goethe remarked to his secretary, Eckermann, that he had always been regarded as one of fortune's chiefest favourites, and he admitted the general truth of the impression, though with significant reserves". In truth", he added", there has been nothing but toil and trouble, and I can affirm that throughout my seventy-five years I have not had a month's real freedom from care".