A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.
Owen FelthamVirtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
Owen FelthamAll men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.
Owen Feltham