Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe