An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannMany 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.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannThe human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannIn the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann