Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTreat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe