Quotes by John Tillotson
“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”— John Tillotson
“Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.”— John Tillotson
“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”— John Tillotson
“To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about them.”— John Tillotson
“The knowledge of God and of ourselves are the highest and most useful parts of philosophy.”— John Tillotson
“He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.”— John Tillotson
“If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.”— John Tillotson