Jeremy Taylor
The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.Collection: Wine
The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.Collection: People
The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.Collection: Evil
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.Collection: Arrows
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.Collection: Time
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.Collection: Love
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.Collection: Wise
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.Collection: Choices