God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe