Jeremy Collier

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

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

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

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

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.

Without discretion people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection and choked with too much nourishment.

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

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

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

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

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

A brave mind is always impregnable.

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

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

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

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