But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Colors are light's suffering and joy

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

DES Mensches Kraft, I'm Richter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetic polar dell'humanity is Rivera new poet

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe