Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannThinkers

Age is suspicious, but is not itself often suspected.

Beauty is worse than wine — it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. Zimmermann.

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.

Economy (saving) is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Egotism is more like an offense than a crime: though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties : the sluggard is a living insensible.

Suicide is to pay the world a bad compliment.

Time 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.