Quotes by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
| Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. |
| The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. |
| Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. |
| Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. |
| A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. |
| A scholar knows no boredom. |
| Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. |
| Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. |
| 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. |
