Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannThere appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannWe never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann