Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.