Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
John SeldenTo preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
John SeldenPleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
John Selden