108 Quotes by Joseph Hall

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.