It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBy the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe