Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little