Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe