Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

- George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

If politicians would think more they would act less.

- George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

- George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

- George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it woul…

- George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

- George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax