It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
