Is not the human heart equally a temple?
only the demons and the gods strive together therein, unfortunately.

To drive the former out, and give place to the latter, should be our aim; and when once purified, and room is given for good deeds and great achievements, we shall not rest satisfied simply to conquer, but rise with gladness to build altars upon those places which we have freed from the demons; for that, we must steadily keep in view truth and reality, and not hide them with a black veil, or array them in party-colored rags.

Our ideas must be clear about the consequences of things, that we may not be like those foolish men who drink wine every evening and complain of headache every morning, resorting to preventives." Did Goethe know the struggles and dissensions which rent the heart of the young man to whom he spoke?
Had his searching eyes read the secrets which were hidden in that darkened soul?
He regarded him as he spoke with so much commiseration that Moritz's heart softened under the genial influence of sympathy and kindness.

A convulsive trembling seized him, his cheeks were burning red, and his features expressed the struggle within.

Suddenly he burst into tears.