Clergyman's

Nothing is more unmannerly than to reflect on any man's profession, sect, or natural infirmity. He who stirs up against himself another's self-love, provokes the strongest passion in human nature.
- James Burgh

Value truth, however you come by it. Who would not pick up a jewel that lay on a dunghill?
- James Burgh

If you give a jest, take one.
Let all your jokes be truly jokes. Jesting sometimes ends in sad earnest.
- James Burgh

Too much company is worse than none.
- James Burgh

If you happen into company where the talk runs into party, obscemty, scandal, folly, or vice of any kind, you had better pass for morose or unsocial, among people whose good opinion is not worth having, than shock your own conscience by joining in conversation which you must disapprove of.
- James Burgh

If you happen into company where the talk runs into party, obscemty, scandal, folly, or vice of any kind, you had better pass for morose or unsocial, among people whose good opinion is not worth having, than shock your own conscience by joining in conversation which you must disapprove of.
- James Burgh

Never fish for praise; it is not worth the bait.
- James Burgh

If you would have a right to account of things from illiterate people, let them tell their story in their own way; if you put them upon talking according to logical rules, you will confound them.
- James Burgh