A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEnthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe