“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have ...” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

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

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

“Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.”

“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”

“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”