“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre (1829), Book VII

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832

German poet and polymath, author of "Faust".

“Youth is intoxication without wine.”

“When we lack ourselves, we lack everything.”

“But what is your duty? What the day demands.”

“The universe is flux, life is opinion.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”

“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.”