John Selden Quotes


While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.


Citations

Selden, John. Table-Talk. Edited by Edward Arber, A. Murray & Son, 1868, p. 86.

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John Selden
John Selden
  • Born: December 16, 1584
  • Died: November 30, 1654
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Statesman

John Selden was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land."