How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.