E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax Quotes

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

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.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

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.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.