Jeremy Taylor

“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”

“Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.”

“Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.”

“A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.”

“He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.”

“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.”

“Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.”

“Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.”

“Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.”

“A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.”

“Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.”

“Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.”

“He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.”

“Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.”

“No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.”

“Love is friendship set on fire.”

“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.”

“If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.”

“When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.”

“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”