54 Quotes by William Temple

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.