Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang’d the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
He look’d a little disorder’d, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us’d to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.
When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
…I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters,…
In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.
Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And ’twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.