Joseph Hall Quotes

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

He is great enough that is his own master.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.