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William Drummond Quotes

«There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.»
«Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.»
Author: William Drummond | Keywords: scholar
«I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.»
Author: William Drummond | About: Self-knowledge | Keywords: physic
«He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave»
Author: William Drummond | About: Reason | Keywords: bigot, bigots, dares
«Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings;Sole comforter to minds with grief opprest»
Author: William Drummond | About: Grief | Keywords: comforter, comforters, shepherds
«Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.»
Author: William Drummond | Keywords: bridle, bridled, bridles
«He who dares not (reason), is a slave.»
Author: William Drummond | Keywords: dares
«He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave»
Author: William Drummond | Keywords: bigot, bigots, dares
«Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.»
Author: William Drummond | Keywords: Art a, this art, whereof
«The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King, / Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild.»