Jean Richter Quotes

"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

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

"All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body."

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

"Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present"

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

"The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made."

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something"

"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."

"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

"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. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's na"

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's"

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

"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive"

"Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face"

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."

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