Lord Halifax
Quotes by Lord Halifax
-
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.
Read quote
-
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
Read quote
-
He that leaveth little to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
Read quote
-
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
Read quote
-
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.
Read quote