George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

Men take more pains to hide than to mend themselves.

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

MISPENDING a Man's time is a kind of self-homicide, it is making Life to be of no use.

Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.

Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.