Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannWhen 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.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannBe not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannLaugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannTime is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann