That modest grace subdued my soul; that chastity of look, which seems to hang a veil of purest light o’er all her beauties.
—Edward Young
One to destroy, is murder by the law; to murder thousands takes a specious name — war’s glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
—Edward Young
Topics: Murder
All evils natural, are moral goods; all discipline, indulgence on the whole.
—Edward Young
The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
—Edward Young
Topics: Future, Adversity
Faith is not only a means of obeying, but a principal act of obedience; not only an altar on which to sacrifice, but a sacrifice itself, and perhaps, of all, the greatest. It is a submission of our understandings; an oblation of our idolized reason to God, which he requires so indispensably, that our whole will and affections, though seemingly a larger sacrifice, will not, without it, be received at his hands.
—Edward Young
Topics: Faith
If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain.
—Edward Young
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
—Edward Young
Topics: Virtue, Tomorrow, Procrastination, The Future, Courage