Explore Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.