Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
John TillotsonA good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John TillotsonIs not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
John TillotsonWhatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.
John Tillotson