I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
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,… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
The past is the best way to suppose what may come. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
