312 quotes
A verse may finde him,who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice.
The Temple (1633)
Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.
The Temple (1633)
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.
The Temple (1633)
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Do well and right, and let the world sink.
Herbert's Remains (1652)
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
The Temple (1633)
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
The Temple (1633)
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.
The Temple (1633)
Religion stands on tip-toe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.
The Temple (1633)
Lie not, neither to thyself nor men nor God. Let mouth and heart be one — beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Restore to God His due in tithe and time;
A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.
The Temple (1633)
Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.
The Temple (1633)
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Where the drink goes in there the wit goes out.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
The Temple (1633)
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
The Temple (1633)
Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.
The Temple (1633)