The present moment is a powerful goddess.

Experience is only half of experience.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.