"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“All perishable is but an allegory.”

“The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.”

“If you want to understand poetry,You have to go to its origin,If you want to understand the poet,You have to go to the Poet's home.”

“Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.”

“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.”

“I can do anything I want to do!”

“A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.”

“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”

“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”