108 Quotes by Joseph Hall

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.

For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.