Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe