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.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

An unused life is an early death.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.