“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.”
“He's the only person I know who read all 42 volumes of the works of Goethe in German and he read them all twice,”
John Knapp
“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 with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form”