Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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

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

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

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

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

A scholar knows no boredom.

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

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.