Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

"A scholar knows no boredom. "

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

"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. "

"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. "

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

"Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. "

"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. "