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.

- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

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…

- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

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 t…

- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.

- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.

- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

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 sm…

- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury