You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel.… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
