Sir William Temple quotes and words of wisdom |  | "So that a paradise, among them seems to have been a large space of
ground adorned and beautified with all sorts of trees, both of fruits and
of forest, either found there before it was enclosed, or planted after;
either cultivated like gardens, for shades and for walks, with fountains
or streams, and all sorts of plants usual in the climate, and pleasant to
the eye, the smell, or the taste; or else employed like our parks, for
enclosure and harbor of all sorts of wild beasts, as well, as for the
pleasure of riding and walking: and so they were of more or less extent,
and of different entertainment, according to the several humors of the
Princes that ordered and enclosed them." | |  | Found in the topic Humor.
| | | "To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to
purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love
of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God." | | | Found in the topic Unsorted.
| | | "The greatest pleasure of life is love." | | | Found in the topic Love.
| | | "Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and
esteem of ages through which they have passed." | | | Found in the topic Book.
| | | "The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear
much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one"s
own opinions, and value others that deserve it." | | | Found in the topic Youth.
| | | "Reacting to evangelists" fondness for quoting Isaiah 1:18, "Though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow...." All my sins
are grey." | | | Found in the topic Sin.
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Interesting Quotes
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.Mahatma Gandhi - Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupery - French writer (1900 - 1944)
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