Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. — John Selden Copy Share Image
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. — John Selden Copy Share Image
To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach… — John Selden Copy Share Image
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find… — John Selden Copy Share Image
When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application;… — John Selden Copy Share Image
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. — John Selden Copy Share Image
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we… — John Selden Copy Share Image
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their… — John Selden Copy Share Image
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious… — John Selden Copy Share Image
