More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Gluck ergreifen, denn das Gluck ist immer da.
  2. O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a breath; The birds are asleep in the trees: Wait; soon like th…
  3. The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.…
  4. Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige, die uns lehrt, uns selbst zu regieren.
  5. Ich die Baukunst eine erstarrte Musik nenne.
  6. Amerika, du hast es besser-als unser Kontinent, das alte.
  7. If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
  8. Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the …

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