Jean Richter Quotations

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end

The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.

Let prayer be the key of the day, and the bolt of the night

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much

Only actions give life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm

Only with those we love do we speak of those we love.

He who has not lost his head over some things has no head to lose

There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, w

Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.

When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun

The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind

As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who tries to speed it up

The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

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

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted

How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world

Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive

The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

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.