He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from ha... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become."

"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."

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."