John Selden: Man

John Selden was English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law. Explore interesting quotes on man.

John Selden: 56 quotes1 like

“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”

Learning.
Table Talk (1689)

“You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's — not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you — not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity — not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul — a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.”

as reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 29.

“Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”

Judgements.
Table Talk (1689)

“A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.”

Of a King.
Table Talk (1689)

“Of all actions of a man's life his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other people.”

Marriage.
Table Talk (1689)

“Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.”

Law.
Table Talk (1689)

“No man is the wiser for his learning.”

Learning.
Table Talk (1689)