On all the peaks lies peace.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Live dangerously and you live right.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Precaution is better than cure.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
I call architecture frozen music.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
