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

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean Paul

Live your life and forget your age.
Jean Paul

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

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Jean Paul

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Jean Paul

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

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
Jean Paul

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul

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

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Jean Paul

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Jean Paul

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul