The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe