Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSecrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so รผbersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe