"The smallest hair throws its shadow.[Ger., Das..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.”

“Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”

“Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.”

“Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.”

“We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.”

“If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.”

“Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.”

“Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.”

“I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.”