Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheForget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDistance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe