Jean Paul Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

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

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

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

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

In women everything is heart, even the head.

Repetition is the mother of education.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

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

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

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

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.