Jean Paul Richter

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

“Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered.”

“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”

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

“No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.”

“Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”

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

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