"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
- Jean Paul Richter
"Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life."
"A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something."
"Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered."
"A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards."
"The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)"
"It is easy to flatter it is harder to praise."
"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another."
"God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul."
"No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much."