We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes…

Quote by Jean Paul Richter

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a...

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a...

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who...

As a rule, for no one does life drag more disagreeably than for him who...

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant...

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant...

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is...

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is...

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it...

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it...

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother...

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother...

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as...

What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as...

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest

Spring makes everything young again, save man

Spring makes everything young again, save man

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight,...

The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight,...

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break...

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break...

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with...

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with...

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade...

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade...

Heaven means to be one with God.

Heaven means to be one with God.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.