E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.Collection: Education
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.Collection: Men
The past is the best way to suppose what may come.Collection: Past
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will haveCollection: Winning
Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.Collection: World
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Art
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.Collection: Friendship
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.Collection: Gratitude
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.Collection: Fool
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.Collection: Perfect
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.Collection: Names
Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.Collection: Business
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.Collection: Spiritual
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.Collection: Freedom
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.Collection: Men