George Savile

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

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

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. ”

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

A princely mind will undo a private family. ”

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

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

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

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