Jeremy Taylor Quotes

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

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

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.

Love is friendship set on fire.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

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

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

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

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

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

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; an...