Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
mediocrity half talent
Half talent is no talent.
venom malice
Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
laughter stills weeping
And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
grief character joy
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
smart giving biting
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.
running curiosity three
Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.
dresses
Dress is an index of your contents.
heart keys silence
He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
All finery is a sign of littleness.
heart vanity glasses
She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.
mother animal cuckoos
Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
cruelty hardy
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
heart feet storm
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
real want imaginary
How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!