Quote #15
The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.
More from James Howell
- Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.
- Appetite is better than surfeit.
- He falls in the pit he digs for others.
- There's fence against all things except death.
- To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
- Affection is blind reason.
- Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
- God consents but not always.