The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIll-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThey teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe