He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?