Quotes by : Jean Paul

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

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it....

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

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil....

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

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

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

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

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