"A reasonable man needs only to practice..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”

“Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.”

“I do not speak of what I cannot praise.”

“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.”

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

“Contemporary American psychiatristIt is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.”

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

“Allow not nature more than nature needs.”