No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play …

- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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

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

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet