Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

To create something you must be something.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The world remains ever the same.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.