James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.
St. Evremond
Good judges are as rare as good authors.
Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend.
There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage.
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; and too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance.
Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity.