"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Men More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best." "Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture." "In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it." More In Men "One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always."― Aiden Wilson Tozer "By nature, men love newfangledness."― Geoffrey Chaucer "Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."― Jackie Mason