Quotes from Jeremy Collier

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

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

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

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

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

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

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

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.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

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