Clergyman's

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.
- James Burgh

Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.
- James Burgh

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. Power in the people is like light in the sun: native, original, inherent, and unlimited by anything human. In governors it may be compared to the reflected light of the moon, for it is only borrowed, delegated, and limited by the intention of the people; whose it is, and to whom governors are to consider themselves aa responsible, while the people are answerable only to God; — themselves being the losers, if they pursue a false scheme of politics.
- James Burgh

I considered, that history is the inexhaustible mine, out of which political knowledge is to be brought up.
- James Burgh

I considered, that history is the inexhaustible mine, out of which political knowledge is to be brought up.
- James Burgh

I considered, that history is the inexhaustible mine, out of which political knowledge is to be brought up.
- James Burgh

The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.
- James Burgh

If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in company with him; the light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well nor ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you.
- James Burgh

If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in company with him; the light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well nor ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you.
- James Burgh

He who knows the world will not be too bashful. He who knows himself will not be impudent.
- James Burgh