101 Quotes by John Selden

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

Old friends are best.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, ’tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.