John Tillotson Quotes

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

- John Tillotson

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

- John Tillotson

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

- John Tillotson

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

- John Tillotson

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

- John Tillotson

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

- John Tillotson

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

- John Tillotson

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

- John Tillotson