Robert Hall

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert read more

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert Hall

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value read more

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current, but read more

Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a
glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.