Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should car…

- James Howell

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trif…

- James Howell

Love is the life of friendship.

- James Howell

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

- James Howell

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger him…

- James Howell

Man's best candle is his understanding.

- James Howell

We learn by teaching.

- James Howell

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

- James Howell

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

- James Howell