“We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe