Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
virtue sentinels conscience
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
curiosity littles may
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
pride air credentials
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
character men manners
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
love eye bears
True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
honesty men self
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave; the best and the worst are only approximations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quantum of congruities and incongruities.
greatness laughing mirth
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
real character greatness
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
god wise humble
It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
fashion long extremes
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.
smile spiritual character
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
intuition instinct hunches
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
voice nibbling done
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
inspirational wise men
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.