Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
action actions finds good incapable others pleasure truly
He is incapable of a truly good action that finds not a pleasure in contemplating the actions of others
action actions finds good incapable pleasure truly
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
true-friend good-love simple
The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
good-humor
Good-humor is always a success.
men enemy good-man
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
divided man until
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
bear generally great merely virtues
The merely just can generally bear great virtues as little as great vices.
books god man none quest stars turn
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man
crowd himself public reforming reforms toward
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots
enemy forgiven life sublime tasted
He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life
acute alone observe observed
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed
comprehend elaborate great hand men minds ordinary pressure
Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence
fit himself suffers
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
men
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.