Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Action)

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Adversity)

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Age and Aging)

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Age and Aging)

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Age and Aging)

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Birthdays)

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Character)

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Character)

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Courage)

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Courage)

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Courage)

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Courtesy)

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Death and Dying)

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Death and Dying)

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Forgiveness)