Jean Paul

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

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

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

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

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

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

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Weaklings must lie.

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.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

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