Quotes from Jean Paul

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

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

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

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.

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

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

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

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

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

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

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.

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

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