Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.