Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.
Jeremy CollierLearning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy CollierA man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.
Jeremy CollierBooks are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.
Jeremy Collier