True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
John TillotsonSurely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
John TillotsonWe anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.
John Tillotson