George Savile

“A resolution that is not attended with execution is a viper in the bosom.”

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

“Ignorance is the mother of impudence.”

“Education is what remains when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

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

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“If men would think how often they wrong others, they would be more ready to forgive.”

“The Court may be said to be a Company of well-bred People that are come together to rifle one another.”

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

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”

“When a man's life is in question, the liberty of nagging should be allowed in its full extent.”

“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.”

“Most men make little other use of their speech than to give names and communicate their passions.”

“The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it... is the sovereign good of human nature.”

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

“A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down.”

“A man may be a very good musician, and yet be a very bad man.”