“A wise man is a clock that never strikes but at his home, or rather…” — Nicholas Breton

“A wise man is a clock that never strikes but at his home, or rather like a dial that being set right with the sun, keeps his true course in his compass.”

Defining wisdom as quiet consistency rather than public display · Characters or essays on moral types

Nicholas Breton

About Nicholas Breton

c. 1554–c. 1625

In the shadowed corridors of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, where the towering figures of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson stride with immortal grace, there walks a quieter, more elusive figure — Nicholas Breton. Born around 1554 and vanishing from historical record by approximately 1625, Breton was a prolific…

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