George Herbert

Who says that fictions only and false hair

— George Herbert

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

— George Herbert

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.

— George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

— George Herbert

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

— George Herbert

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

— George Herbert

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

— George Herbert

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

— George Herbert

Living well is the best revenge.

— George Herbert

Night is the mother of counsels.

— George Herbert

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.

— George Herbert

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

— George Herbert

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

— George Herbert

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

— George Herbert

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

— George Herbert

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

— George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

— George Herbert

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

— George Herbert

To write a verse or two is all the praiseThat I can raise.

— George Herbert

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

— George Herbert

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,A box where sweets compacted lie.

— George Herbert

Like summer friends,Flies of estate and sunneshine.

— George Herbert

Man is one world, and hathAnother to attend him.

— George Herbert

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

— George Herbert

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

— George Herbert

A verse may finde him,who a sermon fliesAnd turns delight into a sacrifice

— George Herbert

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,When once it is within thee.

— George Herbert

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

— George Herbert

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makesError a fault, and truth discourtesy.

— George Herbert

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

— George Herbert

Be useful where thou livest.

— George Herbert

Man is God's image; but a poor man isChrist's stamp to boot: both images regard.

— George Herbert

Chase brave employment with a naked swordThroughout the world.

— George Herbert

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,'T is angels' music.

— George Herbert

The worst speak something good; if all want sense,God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.

— George Herbert

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affordsIf when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert

Teach me, my God and King, To do it as for thee..

— George Herbert

A servant with this clauseMakes that and th' action fine.

— George Herbert

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

— George Herbert

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

— George Herbert

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

— George Herbert

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

— George Herbert

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

— George Herbert