Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHow often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe