It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

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.