Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action