The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhere confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOnce you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe