As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe