Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
From Robert South
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
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