We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.