“The finished man, you know, is difficult to please;a growing mind will ever show you gratitude.--Faust 1, lines 182-3”

“Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.”

“I am part of the part that once was everything,Part of the darkness which gave birth to light…Mephistopheles, from Faust.”

“Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!”

“Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same storyTo-morrow, and the next more dilatory,For indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute!What you can do, or think you can, begin it!Only engage, and then the mind grows heated;Begin it, and the work will be completed.”

“A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.”

“Dear me! how long is art!And short is our life!I often know amid the scholar's strifeA sinking feeling in my mind and heart.How difficult the means are to be foundBy which the primal sources may be breached;And long before the halfway point is reached,They bury a poor devil in the ground.”