"Lord Byron is only great as a..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

“A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.”

“How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?”

“To be great, you must be misunderstood”

“When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.”

“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”

“Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.”

“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”

“Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.”