"How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!"
Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
"The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages."
"When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. The Spartans thought rightly and nobly. In the world of childhood all posterity stands before us, upon which we, like Moses upon the promised land, may only gaze, but not enter."
"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
"Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können."
"The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven."