James Howell
James Howell
James Howellwas a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
wine men blood
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
real real-friends love-is
Love is the life of friendship.
loss weight-loss physicians
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
political soul ambassadors
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
art sculpture shapes
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
sin ifs saved
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.
littles pioneers sin
Little sins are pioneers of hell.
money purses want
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
adversity twenties prosperity
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
tables
Words and works eat not at one table.
easter thee seems
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
evil parent world
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 trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.
nature advice research
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
home house paint
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 carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.