The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times. — George Savile Copy Share Image
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. — George Savile Copy Share Image
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. — George Savile Copy Share Image
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. — George Savile Copy Share Image
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. — George Savile Copy Share Image
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. — George Savile Copy Share Image
In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live, it may be implied he is not very honest. — George Savile Copy Share Image
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. — George Savile Copy Share Image
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those… — George Savile Copy Share Image
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way. — George Savile Copy Share Image
