Born Thursday 28 August 1749, died Thursday 22 March 1832
Professions: Artist, Poet, Politician, Writer
Nationality: German
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.