We have time enough if we but use it aright.
Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World.
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
Be valiant and powerful forces will come to your aid.
Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.
The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.
If you live criticizing people, you won’t have time to love them.
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit’s passage into its own secrets or the world’s.
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
To know where a thing is we must have found it.
It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.
When one is polite in German, one lies.
I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.