Quotes from Jeremy Collier

A brave mind is always impregnable.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.