Quotes By Jean Paul

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.