A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

- Thomas Sprat

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

- Thomas Sprat

Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a tho…

- Thomas Sprat

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also a…

- Thomas Sprat

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinen…

- Thomas Sprat

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

- Thomas Sprat

They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making o…

- Thomas Sprat

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

- Thomas Sprat

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

- Thomas Sprat