There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our... - 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."
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."