The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFor usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe