Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes
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The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.
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Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
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Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.
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Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
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There is no little vigour and force added to words, when they are delivered in a neat and fine way, and somewhat out of the ordinary road, common and dull language relishing more of the clown than the gentleman. But herein also affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself, than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
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Now that the April of your youth adorns The garden of your face.
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Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer, Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver.
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Our life is but a dark and stormy night, To which sense yields a weak and glimmering light, While wandering Man thinks he discerneth all By that which makes him but mistake and fall.
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Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, Much less your fairest mind invade: Were not our souls immortal made Our equal loves can make them such.
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Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.