Jean Paul Richter
20 quotations
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Weaklings must lie.
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.