90 Quotes by Owen Feltham

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure:two things most precious to the life of man.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing.

Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.

Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.