By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCertain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe