It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke More Quotes by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke More Quotes From Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke citizens ignorance men What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke vines three sorrow Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke law heart world
