"Human life runs its course in the..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”

“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.”

“People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.”

“Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.”

“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”

“I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.”

“The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?”

“You must first put something into your life before you can get something out of it.”

“What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.”