Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

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.

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.