Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.