"The coward only threatens when he is..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”

“The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.”

“In art, the best is good enough.”

“Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.”

“We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.”

“I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.”

“By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.”

“You take care and I hope I'll run into you - when I'm driving.”

“I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.”