Quotes from Richter

Music is the poetry of the air.

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray.

The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.

The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked.

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.