Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe