(39 quotes found)
“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught”
George Savile
“A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else”
“A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting”
“A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner”
“If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.”
“Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no”
“Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.”
“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”
“Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding”
“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”
