"Could we perfect human nature, we might..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.”

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

“I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.”

“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”

“Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”

“My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.”

“You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.”

“Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”

“Even women are perfect at the outset.”