“We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”

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.”

“Not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

“In love of home, the love of country has its rise.”

“The best way to worship God is to love your wife.”

“He loved no other place, and yet Home was no home to him.”

“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”

“No man has ever lived that had enough Of children's gratitude or woman's love.”