We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheShould 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?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe