"Love, whose power youth feels, is not..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.”

“Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.”

“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine”

“Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.”

“Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now letme die, for I have lived long enough.”

“The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.”

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.”