Mary Collyer Quotes

#1. Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

Mary Collyer

#2. Prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Mary Collyer

#3. Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Mary Collyer

#4. Swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

Mary Collyer

#5. Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

Mary Collyer

#6. Those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.

Mary Collyer

#7. The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.

Mary Collyer

#8. How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

Mary Collyer

#9. I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

Mary Collyer