Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
forgiveness embrace divine
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
believe book reading
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
communication genius charity
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
character home doors
Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.
character buttons dresses
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
grief character men
Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God,--as his God, so he.
religious humble humility
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
imitation wit poorest
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.
men interest
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.
cancer heart innocent
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.
men religion physicians
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
philosophy calm patient
True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
men invisible relation
What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?
lying incentives action
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.