Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar… — Owen Feltham Copy Share
To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders;… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
