Baxter Men

Famous quotes containing the words baxter and/or men:

    In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.
    —Variously Ascribed.

    The formulation was used as a motto by the English Nonconformist clergyman Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

    What is this world? what asketh men to have?
    Now with his love, now in his colde grave
    Allone, withouten any compaignye.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)