Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.