1,357 Quotes by George Herbert

It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]

He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.

Feares are divided in the midst.

Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

That is gold which is worth gold.

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.