Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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

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

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.