Thomas Fuller Quotes

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

Be not mortally angry with any for a venial fault. He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who at the landing of every cockboat sets the beacons on fire. To be angry for every toy debases the worth of thy anger; for he who will be angry for any thing, will be angry for nothing.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

[T]hey which play with the devils rattles, will be brought by degrees to wield his sword[.]

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship... All things are difficult before they are easy....