Jean Paul

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. ↗

— Jean Paul

#health #interrupted #must #riches #sleep

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. ↗

— Jean Paul

#clearly #end #father #galleries #heard

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

— Jean Paul

#attracts #beauty #beside #gold #like

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. ↗

— Jean Paul

#eternal #eternal youth #gives #immortality #sleep

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. ↗

— Jean Paul

#fancy #gray #gray hairs #hairs #life

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

— Jean Paul

#i #made #man #more #much

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#bearing #heavier #load #loved #loved ones

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

#air #around #beneath #break #gather

Weaklings must lie. ↗

— Jean Paul

#must

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? ↗

— Jean Paul

#beats #because #covering #feathers #fur