The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!