Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
“Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.”
Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.
Jean Paul's Geist; oder Chrestomathie http://books.google.ca/books?id=UMwMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA6&hl=en, Vierter Theil [4th part], Weimar/Leipzig, 1816
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 59.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 568.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 620.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 238.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 19.
“How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 597.
Jean-Paul Richter, Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education https://archive.org/details/levanaordoctrine02jean 1807 1865 translation p. 1
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 366.
“The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 368.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 313.
“The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 416.
“The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.”
As quoted in Treasury of Thought (1872) by Maturin M. Ballou, p. 521
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 105.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 556.
