Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.

Who rides, so late, through night and wind? It is the father with his child. He holds the boy in the crook of his arm He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.

Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.

One lives but once in the world.

I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.

He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.

So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!

Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.