Quotes from George Herbert

That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

The market is the best garden.

Love is swift of foot;/Love's a man of war.

Peace, prattler.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

Let all live as they would die.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

Favour will as surely perish as life.

A faire death honours the whole life.

He that feares death lives not.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

Praise day at night, and life at the end.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Spend not on hopes.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

The chiefe boxe of health is time.