"Fortunately, we can take in only so..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.”

“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”

“Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.”

“Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.”

“Never flinch, never weary, never despair.”

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”

“Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.”

“For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.”