Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

"If you would create something,you must be something."

"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."

"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"