Faust – JW von Goethe (1831)

Scene 1, pg. 22

Wagner:

“Ah, God! but Art is long,

And Life, alas! is fleeting.”

pg. 23

“Most zealously I seek for erudition:

Much do I know – but to know all is my ambition.”

Faust (solus):

pg. 24-25

“If hopeful Fancy once, in daring flight,

Her longings to the Infinite expanded,

Yet now a narrow space contents her quite,

Since Time’s wild wave so many a fortune stranded.”

…

“Shall here a thousand volumes teach me only

That men, self-tortured, everywhere must bleed, –

And here and there one happy man sits lonely?”

…

Second Part, Act I

pg. 14-15

Mephistopheles:

How closely linked are Luck and Merit,

Doth never to these fools occur:

Had they the Philosopher’s Stone, I swear it,

The Stone would lack the Philosopher!