Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The sluggard is a living insensible.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The purse of the patient often protracts his case.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility.…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

'We only have two things to worry about… One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann