Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us …

- Jeremy Collier

The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal …

- Jeremy Collier

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swel…

- Jeremy Collier

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

- Jeremy Collier

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

- Jeremy Collier

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in thei…

- Jeremy Collier

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

- Jeremy Collier

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the cor…

- Jeremy Collier

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

- Jeremy Collier