Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. – Francis Beaumont
Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. – Francis Beaumont
There is a method in mans wickedness; it grows up by degrees. – Francis Beaumont
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. – Francis Beaumont
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877