Zitat des Tages von George Savile:
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
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.
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.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
A princely mind will undo a private family.
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
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 man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.