"The hardest thing to see is what..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.”

“No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.”

“Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.”

“It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”

“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

“In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.”

“They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?”

“But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.”

“Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.”