Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.
I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.