Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe