Quote #10
A princely mind will undo a private family.
More from George Savile
- A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
- A very great memory often forgotteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.
- A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
- A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- Every single act either weakeneth or improveth our credit with other men; and as a habit of being just to our word will confirm, so a habit…
- A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
- He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.