Quotes by George Herbert
Spend not on hopes.
The shortest answer is doing.
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
He that lives in hope danceth without musick.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
None knows the weight of another's burden.
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
Never was a miser a brave soul.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
The resolved mind hath no cares.
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
Night is the mother of counsels.
