15 Quotes by John Wilkins

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

Nothing is properly one’s duty but what is also one’s interest.

It’s a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it’s always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

How strange a thing this art of writing did seem at it’s first invention, we may guess by late discovered Americans, who were amazed to see men Converse with books, and could scarce make themselves to believe that a paper could speak...