Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
