Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

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

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe