Quotes from George Herbert

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.

Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

A good heart cannot lye

Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

Love and businesse teach eloquence.

Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.

Love is not found in the market.

Love makes a good eye squint.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

A great ship asks deep water.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.