Top 50 Quotes by 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.

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

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

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

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.