NovelThe sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheElective Affinities · 1808★ 6.2
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyWho strives always to the utmost, For him there is salvation.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 5.6
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyTwo souls dwell, alas! in my breast.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 4.0
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyMan will err while yet he strives.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 4.0
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyLaw is mighty, mightier necessity.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 4.0
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyAll theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 3.9
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyOnce a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 3.9
PoemNear this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.Lord Byron1808★ 3.6
PoemO Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering upon aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!Sir Walter ScottRedgauntlet · 1808★ 3.5
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyI love those who yearn for the impossible.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 3.1
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyAnd here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand! no wiser than before.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 3.1
NovelA teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheElective Affinities · 1808★ 2.8
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyJust trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1808★ 2.3
PoemNovember's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.Sir Walter ScottMarmion · 1808★ 1.9
PoemBelieve me, if all those endearing young charms Which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away, Thou would'st still be ador'd as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still.Thomas Moore1808★ 1.8