Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.