Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.
Jeremy CollierPerpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Jeremy CollierLearning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy CollierIt is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.
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