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Richard Cumberland Quotes

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

Its better to wear out than to rust out.

Richard Cumberland
Birthday, Rust, Labor
In George Horne 'The Duty of Contending for the Faith' (1786) p. 21n.

I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.

Richard Cumberland
Wise, Gratitude, Mean

All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.

Richard Cumberland
God, Mother, Children

The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.

Richard Cumberland
Wise, Witty, Art
Richard Cumberland (1822). “The observer”, p.220

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