Quotes by : Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it;....

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and....

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the....

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity-....

Love is friendship set on fire.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and....