Zimmermann Quotes
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.
Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.
Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.
When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.