The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.
When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.
Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.
Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.
All things are only transitory.
Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business!...
No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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...
We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.
What you feed in yourself that grows.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Music is either sacred or profane. What is sacred accords completely with its nobility, and this is where music most immediately influences life; such influence remains unchanged at all times and in e...
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.