When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe