Quotes by James Howell

“The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.”

“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”

“God consents but not always.”

“Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.”

“Affection is blind reason.”

“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”

“There's fence against all things except death.”

“He falls in the pit he digs for others.”

“Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.”

“The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.”

“Appetite is better than surfeit.”

“He will bless God, and love England ever after”

“The Netherlands have been for many years, as one may say, the very cockpit of Christendom.”

“Words are the soul's embassadors, who go Abroad upon her errands to and fro; They are the sole expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twist all mankind. They are those airy keys that ope ...”

“'Tis only man can words create, And cut the air to sounds articulate By nature's special charter. Nay, speech can Make a shrewd discrepance 'twist man and man: It doth the gentleman from clown disc...”

“Words are the life of knowledge; they set free, And bring forth truth by way of midwif'ry: The activ'st creatures of the teeming brain, The judges who the inward man arraign: Reason's chief engine ...”

“Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape, And of rude commons rich enclosures make.”