Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

A useless life is an early death.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.