Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheArtists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe