"Nothing is true, but that which is..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.”

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”

“Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.”

“Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.”

“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.”

“It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.”

“Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.”

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.”

“To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.”