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

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the….

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend….

It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy G….

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness..

People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, b….

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?.

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

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life..

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

Repetition is the mother of education..

For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens in burning stars, but on the earth He has sowed his name in tender flowers..

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell..

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

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

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age..

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him..

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it..

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great..

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..