Francis Atterbury

“There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he does not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to reject it.”

“If the world is to be mended, it must be mended by religion.”

“A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion.”

“The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.”

“Government is a plain, simple, intelligible thing, founded in nature and reason, and reducible to practice without mystery or obscurity.”

“Good sense is the foundation of everything, and is the perfection of all the other qualities of the mind.”