Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Treasure Quotations

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.