Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten,

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. >From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.