George Herbert

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy…

Life is half spent before we know what it is…

Do not wait the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and…

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life…

There would be no great men if there were no little ones…

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters…

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and…

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit…

Living well is the best revenge…

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer…

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no…

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge…

War makes thieves and peace hangs them…