- By no means run in debt: take thine own measure,
- Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,
- Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT, The Church Porch
- Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil,
- Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.
GEORGE HERBERT, The Church-Porch
- Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick
- Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.
GEORGE HERBERT, The Church-Porch
Many, affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERT, The Temple
Wit is an unruly engine, wildly striking sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.
GEORGE HERBERT, The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
Sweet spring is full of sweet days and roses; it is a box of variegated sweets.
GEORGE HERBERT, attributed, Day's Collacon
The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave,
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,
Thy root is even in the grave,
And thou must die.
GEORGE HERBERT, Vertue
He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
Praise the sea, but keep on land.
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
Stay a little, and news will find you.
GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
