(12 quotes found)
“Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings;Sole comforter to minds with grief opprest”
William Drummond
“There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.”
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.”
“I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.”
“He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave”
“Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.”
“He who dares not (reason), is a slave.”
“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave”
“Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.”
“The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King, / Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild.”