Richard Blackmore

“Who shuns the open field, and loves the dark.”

“An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.”

“Eloquence is the child of knowledge.”

“Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.”

“Too much mercy is a want of mercy.”

“Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.”

“Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.”

“The past is all stored in the memory.”