Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
—John Witherspoon
Topics: Speech, Speaking, Speakers
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
—John Witherspoon
Topics: Reading
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.
—John Witherspoon
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
Men talk in raptures of youth and beauty, wit and sprightliness; but after seven years of union, not one of them is to be compared to good family management, which is seen at every meal, and felt every hour in the husband’s purse.
—John Witherspoon
Topics: Economy
There is scarcely anything more harmless than political or party malice. It is best to leave it to itself. Opposition and contradiction are the only means of giving it life or duration.
—John Witherspoon
Topics: Politics
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- John Muir American Naturalist
- Woodrow Wilson American Head of State
- William Sloane Coffin American Presbyterian Clergyman
- B. C. Forbes Scottish-born American Journalist
- Thomas Jefferson American Head of State
- Alexander Graham Bell Scottish-born American Inventor
- Frederick Buechner American Writer, Theologian
- Thomas De Witt Talmage American Presbyterian Clergyman
- David Livingstone Scottish Missionary, Explorer
- Benjamin Franklin American Founding Father, Inventor
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