108 Quotes by Joseph Hall

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.