Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes
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Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
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Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
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Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
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The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
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In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
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Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
- Born: March 3, 1583
- Died: October 20, 1648
- Occupation: Diplomat
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