Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion’s wit; do not even smile at his folly. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want – the want of money. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann