Jeremy Taylor

“There is no greater woe than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.”

“It is a great art to have an answer for a fool.”

“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth.”

“He that is proud of his sins will not be ashamed of his punishment.”

“Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.”

“Love is friendship set on fire.”

“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.”

“A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man.”

“All is not lost that is in peril.”

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

“No man can be a proficient in the school of Christ that is not a proficient in the school of affliction.”

“Humility is the great ornament and jewel of all Christian virtues.”

“God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.”

“He that is choice of his time will also be choice of his company.”

“The best way to be humble is not to stoop till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”