Clergyman's

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
- James Burgh

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.
- James Burgh

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
- James Burgh

Do well, but do not boast of it; for that will lessen the commendation you might otherwise have deserved.
- James Burgh

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.
- James Burgh

Fools pretend to foretell what will be the issue of things, and are laughed at for their awkward conjectures. Wise men being aware of the uncertainty of human aflairs, and having observed how small a matter often produces a great change, are modest in their conjectures.
- James Burgh

Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.
- James Burgh

Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.
- James Burgh

There is an affected humility more unsufferable than downright pride, as hypocrisy is more abominable than libertimsm. Take care that your virtues be genuine and unsophisticated.
- James Burgh

If you have seen a man misbehave once, do not from thence conclude him a fool; if you find he has been in a mistake in one particular, do not at once conclude him void of understanding : by that way of judging, you can entertain a favourable opinion of no man upon earth, nor even of yourself.
- James Burgh