Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim.

Maxims and Reflections · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · T. Bailey Saunders translation · 1906

A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.

Individually reviewed excerpts from Life and Character in the 1906 edition of Saunders' English translation. Unreviewed entries, the preface, other sections and index are excluded. These are historical literary reflections, not contemporary facts or personal advice; attribution to the collection does not guarantee original authorship of every phrase.