Personality is everything in art and poetry. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."

"I love those who yearn for the impossible."

"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."

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"