Jeremy Collier

“Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency.”

“Modesty is a guard to virtue, and the recommending quality of every other good endowment.”

“It is a general rule that I will not dispute with a man who says that he will not believe, however much he may be proved to be in the wrong.”

“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”

“A man had better be poisoned in his blood than in his principles.”

“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”

“Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.”

“Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.”

“Wit should be used to grace goodness, but not to varnish evil.”

“The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.”

“Our senses, as our reason, are shallow and incorrect.”

“Self-love is the parent of many sins.”

“Contentment is a sleepy, idle quality, that closes the mind to all improvements.”