John Jortin Quotes

• El arte de gobernar [enfocar] las pasiones es más útil y más importante que muchas cosas en cuya búsqueda y persecución pasamos nuestros días. Sin este arte, las riquezas y la salud, y la habilidad y el conocimiento, nos darán poca satisfacción; y seamos lo que seamos, no podemos ser ni felices, ni sabios, ni buenos.

  John Jortin

  Wise, Art, Passion

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• The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

  John Jortin

  Sunbeams, Duty, Written

  Sermon, 1751.

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• Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

  John Jortin

  Men, Esteem

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• A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.

  John Jortin

  Men, Luxury, Violence

  John Jortin (1787). “Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...”, p.75

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• He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

  John Jortin

  Mean, Men, Greatness

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