Quotes from Thomas Sprat

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.