John Tillotson
8 quotes.
Quotes by John Tillotson
- A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
- A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.
- Integrity gains strength by use.
- Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest.
- Sincerity is like travelling 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.
- Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.
- There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question, than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
- To be able to bear provocation is, an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.