Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar
heartless sneer
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
trust
Women are proverbially credulous.
arbitrary habit masters
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
hypocrite passion honest
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
ears mouths slander
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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.
friendship cheating-men cheat
He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
time vehement cold
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
humble pride may
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
virtue sentinels conscience
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
time next moral
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
generosity heaven may
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
tongue faces eloquent
The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.