Quotes by Jean Paul

“Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.”

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

“When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. ...”

“Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.”

“The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.”

“The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.”

“No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved ...”

“The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries ...”

“The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy towa...”

“When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blos...”

“The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.”

“The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”

“The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.”

“Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?”

“Suffering is my gain; I bowTo my Heavenly Father's will,And receive it hushed and still;Suffering is my worship now.”

“How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!”

“Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.”