The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Do your thing, and I shall know you.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.