من هرگز در حسرت بال پرندگان نخواهم بود. جذبه های جانم، از کتابی به کتاب دیگر و از صفحه ای به صفحه ی دیگر مرا به جاهای بسیار دورتر می برند.

Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

THE LORD. You've nothing more to say to me? You come but to complain unendingly? Is never aught right to your mind?MEPHISTOPHELES. No, Lord! All is still downright bad, I find.

How to please the public - that's the test,But nowadays I find I'm in a fix;I know they're not accustomed to the best,But they've all read so much they know the tricks.How can we give then something fresh and newThat's serious, but entertaining too?

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

„Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.