George Savile

“Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.”

“Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.”

“Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.”

“A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.”

“The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.”

“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.”

“No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.”

“Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.”

“There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.”

“When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.”

“They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.”

“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”

“Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.”

“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”

“The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.”

“A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.”

“Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.”

“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”

“Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.”

“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.”