Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMusic 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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe