Francis Quarles Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor.

  Francis Quarles

  Fall, Honor, Foundation

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.51

• Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

  Francis Quarles

  Lust, Vices, Spurs

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

• Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

  Francis Quarles

  Two, Understanding, Soul

• Afflictions clarify the soul;
  And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
  Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

  Francis Quarles

  Giving, Soul, Age

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