If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
