20 quotes
English judge
“All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.”
"Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested."
on Wisdom
"Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man."
on Writing
"Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set."
on Philosophy
"In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior."
"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief."
on Family
"For knowledge too is itself a power."
"Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man."
"A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison."
on Health
"Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses."
on Relationships
"Reading maketh a full man."
"A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage."
on Marriage
"Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us."
"Houses are built to live in and not to look on."
on Life
"Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling."
"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
"Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read."
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
on Religion
"This world's a bubble."