Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
The eternal female draws us onward.
If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.