"Care is taken that trees do not..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.”

“Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.”

“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”

“It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.”

“You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.”

“People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.”

“In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—”

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”