A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Quote

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
- Jean Paul Quote

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

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
- Jean Paul Quote

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
- Jean Paul Quote

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
- Jean Paul Quote

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
- Jean Paul Quote

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
- Jean Paul Quote

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
- Jean Paul Quote

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

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
- Jean Paul Quote

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
- Jean Paul Quote

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
- Jean Paul Quote

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
- Jean Paul Quote

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
- Jean Paul Quote

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Quote

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

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
- Jean Paul Quote

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.
- Jean Paul Quote

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
- Jean Paul Quote

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

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
- Jean Paul Quote

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.
- Jean Paul Quote

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

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
- Jean Paul Quote

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
- Jean Paul Quote

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.
- Jean Paul Quote

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
- Jean Paul Quote

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
- Jean Paul Quote

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