Owen FelthamThinkers

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that Would corrupt it.

Charity is a duty, not a courtesy, where there is plenty.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Gambling is the certain loss of the two most precious things to man: time and treasure.

Gold is the fool’s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I nm on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when 1 come ashore.

Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.

Virtue is the truest liberty.