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.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannThose beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannWhen soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannAn 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 Zimmermann