Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I call architecture frozen music.

Love can do much, but duty more.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.