George Savile

“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.”

“Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.”

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

“The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”

“A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.”

“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.”

“The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.”

“A princely mind will undo a private family.”

“Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.”

“Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.”

“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”