Jean Paul
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.Collection: Inspirational
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.Collection: Wings
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.Collection: Art
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.Collection: Men
Paradise is always where love dwells.Collection: Love
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.Collection: Happiness
Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.Collection: Education
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.Collection: God
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.Collection: Funny
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.Collection: Inspirational
In women everything is heart, even the head.Collection: Love
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.Collection: Dog
Despair is the only genuine atheism.Collection: Despair
Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.Collection: Life
A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.Collection: Life
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.Collection: Flattery
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.Collection: Life
It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."Collection: Friendship
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.Collection: Memories
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.Collection: Sweet
Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.Collection: Respect
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.Collection: Trying
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to oneCollection: Love
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.Collection: Spring
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.Collection: Self
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.Collection: Future
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.Collection: Kindness
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.Collection: Wine
The German language is the organ among the languages.Collection: German Language
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.Collection: Life
A scholar knows no boredom.Collection: Boredom
A sky full of silent suns.Collection: Sky
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.Collection: Reading
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.Collection: Way
Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.Collection: Beautiful
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.Collection: Friendship
Repetition is the mother of education.Collection: Mother
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.Collection: Inspirational
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?Collection: Gratitude
Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.Collection: Beautiful
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.Collection: Joy
The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.Collection: Tombstone
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.Collection: Passion
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the agesCollection: Jesus
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.Collection: Men
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.Collection: Love Is
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.Collection: Gratitude
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.Collection: Men
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.Collection: Men