Jean Paul Richter

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and
down beneath it.

Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and
down beneath it.

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

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

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr read more

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als
Einerleiheit des Etwas.]

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

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