Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."

"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."