Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

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

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.