More quotes by 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."
"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."
"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."