In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHow often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe