Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I am not omniscient, but much is known to me.

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may...

There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give...

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the...

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

If you treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. – Without haste, but without rest.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als jene, die fälschlicherweise glauben, frei zu sein.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name...

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Patriotism ruins history.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying...

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will...

Strike the dog dead, it’s but a critic!

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.

Buradaki insanların nasıl bir karaktere sahip olduklarını merak ediyorsan söyleyeyim ki, her yerde olduğundan farksız. Insan cinsi değişmez, her yerde aynıdır. Aşağı yukarı hepsi yaşamak için çalışıyorlar. Calışmaktan geriye kalan çok az vakitlerinde de korkuyorlar,...

Närrisch, dass jeder in seinem FalleSeine besondere Meinung preist!Wenn Islam Gott ergeben heißt,Im Islam leben und sterben wir alle!

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken...

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life