Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDestiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe