101 Quotes by John Selden

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.