There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.
Joseph HallWhat fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
Joseph HallNothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.
Joseph Hall