"I have found a paper of mine..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.”

“Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.”

“Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.”

“If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.”

“The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.”

“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.”

“I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.”

“Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.”

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”