More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all et…
  2. The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings i…
  3. Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully execu…
  4. Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
  5. Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores & sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
  6. No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
  7. Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it. Only a few things I find as…
  8. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory wit…

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