Quotes by Richard Hooker
“He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.”— Richard Hooker
“Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world.”— Richard Hooker
“There will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.”— Richard Hooker
“God hath created nothing simply for itself, but each thing in all things, and of every thing each part in other hath such interest, that in the whole world nothing is found whereunto any thing can be useless and fruitlesse.”— Richard Hooker
“For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it...is a bondage of mind that hath been bred by ignorance and cherished by custom.”— Richard Hooker
“Posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream.”— Richard Hooker
“The soul of man being therefore at the first as a book, wherein nothing is, and yet all things may be imprinted.”— Richard Hooker