It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny