Bishop HallThinkers

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

A Vice is seldom single.