When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he shou… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

When I say to the Moment flying;
'Linger a while — thou art so fair!'
Then bind me in thy bonds undying,
And my final ruin I will bear!

"Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."