"True happiness springs from moderation.[Ger., Aus Massigkeit..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.”

“Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.”

“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”

“People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.”

“I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”

“That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.”

“Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.”

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”