The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
'We only have two things to worry about… One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!' Open… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
